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Blanche has 'taken a blowtorch' to DOJ as Trump empowers him to tear it all down: expert

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Attorney General Todd Blanche has been empowered by his confirmation to transform the entire Justice Department in President Donald Trump's image, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman warned in his Talking Feds Substack. The DOJ is no stranger to being overtaken by corruption, noted Litman. For instance, "John Mitchell ran Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks and went to federal prison for it," while way back under former President Warren Harding, "Harry Doherty turned the Department into a vehicle for graft, his cronies selling pardons and immunities like so many indulgences, earning the DOJ the nickname 'the Department of Easy Virtue.'" The difference, he said, is that "none of these AG’s was suggesting that the conduct was exemplary. Blanche, by contrast, has openly taken a blowtorch to standards that have been articles of faith at the DOJ for 50 years . Puffed up with his confirmation, he’s taken on a renewed cockiness — arrogance, really — and proclaimed his and Donald Trump’s perverted